Increase in Anti-EV Media Articles

Apologies, your comment is a bit confusing… What exactly do you not believe? The bit about new ICE car sales ending in 2035? That's european law. In order to roll back on that they would need consensus from the commission and I think it would also need to go through the parliament, who are fairly set on it. I agree there's not enough work being done on it though at a legislative level but it is coming

Yeah and I guess they could always sell them here for 8 years and elsewhere after that point

As an outright petrol head I think the amount of nonsense that is being leaked into the average persons psyche is amazing. They hear stories and tales of someone that knew someone etc etc and the stories grow legs. Many people like to think they "know more / better" are "too smart" to be caught with EVs the same way as diesels are now toxic even though a modern blue efficiency diesel is very clean compared to older gens.

At this stage I don't bother correcting people anymore as its their loss. As I said I am a petrol head with a V12 Twin Turbo monster and a flat six mid engine plaything and a diesel long distance work hack but for 99% of the household usage Mrs Tracos EV is the perfect machine.

Unfortunately most people won't do any independent research and analysis and the media just wants clicks. I believe a certain high profile cars sales person was on yetserday or today moaning that BMW wanted 42k for the hybrid system in an i8. Again just more profiling and clicks. Thats the system and if you see it for what it is you can just filter all that out and for those that dodn't it leaves chargers under less pressure for the rest of us the odd time we need them.

Yeah but this one has gained so much momentum and copycat laws around the world it would be a huge embarrassment to roll it back. I can see Labour leading in the UK next month, they will definitely keep their target of 2035 (or maybe even bring it back to 2030) Imagine if the EU had to delay their plan while the UK didn't. Major embarrassment!

Can only agree with all of this. It's impossible to take any media at face value these days. Or anyone who just echos what sound bites they've heard somewhere else. You have to do your own research. If someone hasn't I've no time for them.

I think people's paranoia really exploded during lockdown. Lapped up media like sheep.

Had someone in the office today blithering on about EVs every myth there is. I just walked away.

Is it overreaching or embarrassing if California, the UK and Ethiopia get there before us?

There used to be queues at these until charging was introduced

Complete BS article, designed to feed an anti EV narrative. Yer man has a cross country journey the next day so, rather than charge the night before at a fast charger like a normal person, decides to go hunting for a *slow* charger to plug into for hours the next morning before travelling and then moans he has trouble doing so and is caught for time. You'd want to be pretty thick to do that - or deliberately engineering your piece for clicks.

It just reinforces the view expressed by many EV owners on here, dont bother buying an EV unless you have home charging

Was down in Cork yesterday and charged at Mahon Point supercharger. Was lucky that 2 free chargers when I arrived but another lad arrived just after me.and plugged into last one. Then 3 further cars arrived and queued. I was charging for just over 20 min while the lad beside me left about a min before me.

The other 2 chargers were hogged by 2 Model S that were plugged in but not charging. So the 3rd car could have been waiting up to 40 min for a charge. Pita if you were in a rush. Not an anti EV view just reality.

yes but unless the unfortunate driveway-less eV drivers get their story out there that the charging situation has to be both plentiful AND cheap for mass adoption, then there will be nether mass adoption nor many feel good stories in the media

The writer of the article lives in Stonybatter and from what i can see theres only slow chargers in that area. He would hardly be expected to drive to blanchardstown or the likes to do a "quick" charge for an hour or so and then back in would he ? Thats hardly the definition of convienent compared to plugging into a slow charger round the corner and picking up the car a few hours later, and he is hardly being malicious to keep to the normal charging routine that he would normally use.

What would you call waiting until last minute to charge from 0% for a long distance journey to a wedding. Knowing full well access to local chargers is problematic. Not least considering the person had exactly the same experience the last time they did this.

I mean why have an EV at all if you've no access to reliable to charging. Seems like that's asking for problems. But perhaps that's the objective.

I have said this repeatedly, but this place is like an ard feis for the Green Party on the subject. Modern generation PHEVs with good range are the perfect solution for more or less carbon free driving together with having none of the downsides of a bev.

I think someone who finds the organisation of charging a large battery once or twice a week isn't going to be bothered charging a very small battery every night or every other night. Really the stats back that up. Whatever the % that will jump to EVs. It's a tiny % will regularly charge phevs. They end up being driven on ICE almost all the time.

I used to think if you actually spend all week doing local journeys and then the occasional long journey, or regular long journeys then a phev makes sense. I'm not so sure now. Seems to be very few who actually do that. The theory is great. Just isn't backed up in real world use.